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Daily Memo: ‘Grave Danger’ in Oil Markets and North Korea

Kim rumors. CNN on Monday night, quoting a single U.S. intelligence official, reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in ā€œgrave danger...

Daily Memo: Exploiting Opportunities and Preventing Exploitation in a Pandemic

Hong Kong containment. The COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong has done to pro-democracy protests what police never quite could, and China is trying to...

Daily Memo: Restrictions Ease and Chinaā€™s Economy Contracts

Itā€™s perhaps the worse quarter for Beijing since the 1960s.

Daily Memo: Grim Economic Data in the U.S.

Bad news comes as tensions rise in the Persian Gulf and South China Sea.

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Prisms of Thought

When I began the Thoughts column, I explained that I was using it as a space for thinking about a new book intended to...

Coronavirus and the Peril of Politicizing Medicine

Even medical institutions are political.

The Coming Decline of Global Trade

(click to enlarge) The World Trade Organization revised its forecast for global trade this year to reflect the impact of the coronavirus pandemic ā€” and...

Daily Memo: Unemployment and Oil

Insurance claims rose by another 6.6 million in the U.S. as OPEC struggles to stabilize prices.

Daily Memo: Wuhan Opens Up

European mitigation. As Europe struggles against the coronavirus outbreak, its institutions are scrambling for solutions to limit economic and political fallout. Today, the European...

The Indo-Pacific After COVID-19

In late March, senior officials from the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a loose coalition of the Indo-Pacificā€™s four most powerful democracies, quietly launched a series...

Supply Chains and a Novel Path to Conflict

Though ā€œsupply chainā€ became a household term only in the past generation, it has been around since humans have been engaging in commerce. One...

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